Our assigned blog topic for the week is 9-11. ((The only reason you should be reading this is if you've lived under a rock for the last ten years. Lets be honest. Everyone knows about this..durrrrr)) I remember the day it happened. I was in first grade and we were in the library when out teachers turned on the TV and watched the news. That is all i remember. I just knew it was bad but i didn't really understand exactly what was going on. I think it was awful of them to purposely kill innocent American citizens. I don't understand how they can live with the thought of killing people. Its just sick.
....The reason those planes took down the Twin Towers that day was because al Qaeda had 19 hijackers take 4 planes and crash them into the buildings. 2 planes took out the Twin Towers. One hit the Pentagon and the last one was taken down in a Pennsylvania field. The people on that plane saved the Capitol or the White House, where that plane was meant to hit. Hijackers used weapons to kill the flight attendents and pilots.
....There was around 2,996 deaths. That is a huge amount of people. All 19 of the hijackers were killed as well. Fires broke out and virtually everyone was killed in those buildings. 343 firefighters died and. Sixty poice officers died. 184 people died in the attic of the pentagon. One person even died of lung disease from the dust from the buildings going down and the ashes that were in the air that tragic day.
....The rebuilding of the world trade center took eight months. Not all of the buildings in the world trade center had collapsed but they had to be demolished because they were damaged beyond repair. After all this went down, we wanted to stop al Quaeda. We eventually attacked Iraq's capital, Baghdad. We have been in war for years now; since March 20, 2003. We wanted them to stop using weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. captued their president Hussein. He was later put to death by hanging. A video came out where they showed the noose being put over his head but was then stopped. No audio was in the video.
....Now we are still in war but Obama planned to have all troops out by August 2010. They still aren't all out. But, Bush signed a contract that said the troops must be out by December 31, 2011. Hopefully they are out before then. Families will be relieved when that day arrives. The U.S. will have a lot lifted from their shoulders when the war is over. It hasn't been bad lately, but being at war is never a good thing. Get us out Obama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://articles.cnn.com/2006-12-29/world/hussein_1_saddam-hussein-dujail-iraqis?_s=PM:WORLD
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